In this centennial year of 1916, it has been interesting to note the extreme and factually flawed measures of some revisionist in their desperate attempts to undermine the courage and cause of the men and women of the revolutionary generation. One such example is the rewriting of WW I, which heretofore had usually been considered one of the greatest follies of mankind, into a … [Read more...] about The Green Flag that is a Historical Red Flag
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The Childhood Friends Who Earned the Medal of Honor
In the historically Irish neighborhood of Woodside, Queens stands a monument to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country in the Vietnam War. On the monument is inscribed the names of 27 young men from the local Zip Code of 11377, more than from any other postal code in the nation to die in that conflict. However, the Irish community of Woodside has another … [Read more...] about The Childhood Friends Who Earned the Medal of Honor
POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN
POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND Irishmen and Irishwomen: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom. Having organized and trained her manhood through her secret … [Read more...] about POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN
James Connolly, Champion of the Irish Working Man and Woman
James Connolly was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1868. His parents were poor rural laborers from Monaghan that had traveled to the capital of Scotland in search of better opportunity only to settle in one of the city’s poorest sections, an Irish enclave in the Cowgate section nicknamed “Little Ireland”. Poverty was a constant childhood companion; forcing young Connolly to … [Read more...] about James Connolly, Champion of the Irish Working Man and Woman
Sean Mac Diarmada, the “Mainspring of the Rising”.
Sean Mac Diarmada was born in Corranmore, near Kiltyclogher in County Leitrim, the third youngest of ten children. He grew up in an area scarred by the sad history of Ireland’s experience under English rule. Surrounding his boyhood home there was an ancient sweathouse, Mass rocks from the penal law days when the Catholic faith was illegal and priests hunted like wolves and … [Read more...] about Sean Mac Diarmada, the “Mainspring of the Rising”.